Senior Officials' Meetings

On the 14th and 15th of November 2018, around 280 Senior Officials from across Europe and Africa met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The participants met to follow up on both the Joint Conclusions established during the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Malta last year, and the progress made under the five domains of the Joint Valletta Action Plan (JVAP), adopted at the Migration Summit in Malta in 2015.

In view of the Fifth Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development, the Rabat Process convened a Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Accra to validate the new draft multi-annual cooperation programme 2018-2020, which will subsequently be adopted at ministerial level in 2018. The SOM, which was hosted by the Republic of Ghana and Chaired by the Kingdom of Belgium, marked a milestone in the consultation process that was launched earlier this year to support the development of the new strategic framework, which will replace the Rome Programme in 2018.

Representatives of more than 60 partner countries and organisations of the Euro-African Dialogue on Migration and Development (Rabat Process) are expected to join the Rabat Process Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Accra on 24th and 25th October 2017. The meeting will contribute to shaping new realities of Euro-African migration cooperation for 2018-2020

Under the chairmanship of the Kingdom of Belgium, around 60 Rabat Process partner countries and organisations will gather in Brussels to discuss the future political and operational priorities of the Euro-African Dialogue on Migration and Development (Rabat Process).

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